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UCLA’s Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) is a major research enterprise focused on developing wireless sensing systems and applying this revolutionary technology to critical scientific and societal pursuits. In the same way that the development of the Internet transformed our ability to communicate, the ever decreasing size and cost of computing components is setting the stage for detection, processing, and communication technology to be embedded throughout the physical world and, thereby, fostering both a deeper understanding of the natural and built environment and, ultimately, enhancing our ability to design and control these complex systems.
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National Science Foundation
Cooperative Agreement #CCR-0120778
Title: Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS)
PI Names: Deborah L. Estrin, Michael Hamilton, Mark Hansen, Thomas Harmon, Gaurav Sukhatme
Effective Date: August 1, 2002 Expiration Date: July 31, 2012

 

Upcoming Events

• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Jonathan Friedman and Dorothea Hall, UCLA
  Beyond the Medical X-ray, Non-ionizing Electrostatic Transconduction and its Biomedical Applications

  July 10, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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Recent Events

• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Dr. Ryan N. Smith, Postdoctoral Research Assistant, USC
  AUV Trajectory Design Based on Ocean Model Predictions

  June 26, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Prof. Alexandre M. Bayen
  Mobile Millennium: using smartphones to monitor traffic in privacy aware environments

  June 19, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Prof. Andreas Terzis
  Elements of a wireless sensor network architecture

  June 12, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 8500

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• CENS High School Scholars Poster Symposium

  May 29, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: CENS Courtyard, BH 3551

  Description: Please join us in celebrating the accomplishments of our CENS High School Scholars from Central High School at this end of the year Poster Symposium. Read More

• Lakshman Krishnamurthy
  Carry Small, Live Large

  May 15, 2009 -- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 3400

  Description: CENS Intel Scholars Keynote Read More

• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Eric Kabisch
  Datascape: Enabling shared imaginaries through a mobile geographic storytelling platform

  May 1, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Gillian R. Hayes
  Challenges and Opportunities for Technologies for Chronic Care Management

  April 24, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Margaret Shih
  Multiple Identities: Putting Your Best Self Forward

  April 17, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Dohyun Kim
  Micromachined Chronocoulometric Nitrate Sensor and Parallel-plate Donnan-dialytic Sample-preparation System Using Anion-exchange Membrane

  April 10, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• CANCELLED - CENS Technical Seminar Series: Dohyun Kim
  Micromachined Chronocoulometric Nitrate Sensor and Parallel-plate Donnan-dialytic Sample-preparation System Using Anion-exchange Membrane

  April 3, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Prof. Tajana Simunic Rosing
  Energy efficient computing

  March 20, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Dr. Gary Geller
  Multi-Ecosystem Modeling

  March 13, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: La Kretz Hall, 300-A

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Carl DiSalvo
  The Neighborhood Networks Project: Exploring Robotics and Sensing Through Participatory Design

  February 27, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Romit Roy Choudhury
  Designing a Virtual Information Telescope Using Mobile Phones and Social Participation

  February 27, 2009 -- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

  Location: CENS conference room

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Aydogan Ozcan
  A new tool for TeleMedicine: Lensfree On-Chip Imaging for High-throughput Cytometry and Point-of-care Diagnostics

  February 20, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Stephen Chong
  Secure Web Applications and Expressive Security Policies

  February 13, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Sebi Ryffel and Thanos Stathopoulos
  Accurate Energy Attribution and Accounting for Multi-core Systems

  February 6, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• Sensing LA workshop

  February 5, 2009 -- 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

  Location: UCLA DeNeve Plaza

  Description: A workshop on innovative measurement, monitoring, and observational technologies for local government Read More

• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Omprakash Gnawali
  Collection Routing and Application-Informed Energy Management in Sensor Networks

  January 23, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Katherine Fibiger
  Intellectual Property, Data and Privacy Issues

  January 16, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• CENS Technical Seminar Series: Prof. Kamin Whitehouse, University of Virginia
  A Comprehensive Approach to Macroprogramming

  January 9, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

  Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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• Live Science - Cell Phones Allow Everyone to Be a Scientist

  04-Jun-09

  Cell phones let you chat with friends, send emails and even guide you to the nearest pizza joint. But now these toys are acquiring more serious roles: They're turning into personal and environmental sensors useful for health and science.
  CENS' Participatory Sensing is featured. Read More

• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - There's a Sensor in Your Pocket

  18-May-09

  Mobile Technologies Enable a New Generation of Citizen Scientists. CENS' Participatory Sensing is featured. Read More

• Nature News - Personal technology: Phoning in data

  22-Apr-09

  Far from being just an accessory, mobile phones are starting to be used to collect data in an increasing number of disciplines. Roberta Kwok looks into their potential.
  
  CENS' Martin Lukac is featured. Read More

• MobileActive.org - Earth Day and Mobile Phones, Part 1: Sensing for a Better World

  21-Apr-09

  If 2009 is the year of the mobile phone for social impact, then Earth Day should mark a special occasion in this regard. More and more organizations and people are discovering how mobile phones can be used for social impact, including how to use mobile tech for environmental protection, sensing, and to leverage just-in-time information to make our movements and actions more environmentally friendly.
  
  CENS' Urban Sensing group is featured. Read More

• Wired - 10 Awesome Summer Internships for Science Students

  16-Apr-09

  If you're a college student thinking about becoming a scientist, now is the time to apply for summer internships. Aside from studying hard, the most important thing that you can do for yourself is get some research experience.
  
  The CENS Summer Program is featured. Read More

• San Francisco Chronicle - Program helps kids find their carbon impact

  06-Apr-09

  The Go Green Foundation of San Francisco, with support from Nokia, CENS at UCLA and AT&T, has been testing a groundbreaking project for the past month that allows 25 students at the Urban School in San Francisco to track their transportation habits using GPS-handsets from Nokia over AT&T's network. Read More

• Popular Mechanics - Citizen Science: How Smartphones Can Aid Scientific Research

  30-Mar-09

  Is your smartphone reaching its full potential? You may use your phone to text, Twitter and geo-tag photographs, but your phone can collect data for so much more than your social networks. CENS' work on smartphones is featured in this article from Popular Mechanics. Read More

• Science Cheerleader - Cell phones + user-generated data = citizen science on steroids

  30-Mar-09

  Fascinating combination of cell phones and citizen scientists to do everything from helping joggers chart healthy running courses, to alerting scientists and policy makers to needed environmental policy changes. CENS' Participatory Sensing project is featured in this blog post. Read More

• Discovery - Sustainable: Wide Angle: All the Cool Kids Have Them

  27-Mar-09

  CENS and the PEIR application are featured in a Discovery article discussing the Urban School of San Francisco and its participation in a pilot project organized by the Go Green Foundation. Read More

• UCLA Impact - PEIR in "10 cool UCLA things to see and do on the Web"

  26-Mar-09

  The CENS PEIR program was featured as #9 in this month's e-newsletter. IMPACT is also emailed to 80,000 alumni through the Alumni Association. Read More

• KQED - Tracking Carbon through Your Cell Phone

  09-Mar-09

  (Audio) A group of high school students in San Francisco are using high-tech GPS cell phones running CENS-developed software to track their daily carbon footprint - and to gauge their daily environmental risk. Read More

• CENS 2009 High School Scholars Program

  13-Feb-09

  APPLY TODAY TO BECOME A CENS HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLAR!
  CENS is accepting applications for the CENS High School Scholars Program. Deadline: March 20, 2009
  
  DEADLINE EXTENDED: April 6, 2009 Read More

• The National Academies - CENS Director Deborah Estrin elected to the National Academy of Engineering

  06-Feb-09

  Congratulations Dr. Estrin! Read More

• New York Times - CENS High School Scholar Ian Cinnamon

  30-Oct-08

  The New York Times features an article about iPhone applications created by Ian Cinnamon (CENS High School Scholar ‘07, ‘08). Read More

• CENS News - Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing (MIT Press, 2008)

  19-Sep-08

  A new book by UCLA GSEIS researcher Jane Margolis describes four years of research in LA schools on high school computer science education and why so few African Americans and Latino/as are learning computer science. It also describes our program for high school teachers. Now available from MIT Press!

• UCLA Today - Calculate Your Carbon Footprint with a Cellphone

  02-Sep-08

  CENS' Deborah Estrin has put herself on the line for her work, comparing her carbon output to that of her friends and then showing the results, flattering or unflattering, on Facebook. Read More

• Business Wire - Personal Environmental Impact Report (PEIR) - Press Release

  16-Jun-08

  CENS unveils new tool to help people understand their relationship with the environment. Read More

• EOS - AGU Student Award

  02-Jun-08

  CENS student Igor Stubailo received an Outstanding Student Paper Award for his poster about shear wave splitting in Mexico. Read More

• Google - Anita Borg Scholarship Winner

  02-Jun-08

  Diane Budzik, a CENS GSR, has been named one of the winners of the 2008 Anita Borg Scholarship. Read More

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